Today, Palm Inc., the company responsible for the Treo 650 smart phone, and Research In Motion (RIM), the maker of the wireless BlackBerry messaging device announced a licensing agreement that will see the Treo 650 Smartphone using RIM's e-mail and communications technology, called BlackBerry Connect reports Reuters.
Joe Fabris, director of wireless marketing for Palm, said the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company expects to boost sales of its Treo by being able to pitch the device to the more than 50,000 companies and organizations around the world that use RIM software on servers that dish out the mobile e-mail reports Globe and Mail

Palm Treo smartphones will have the ability to enable the following;

- push-based email using BlackBerry Connect with Palm's VersaMail email client;
- support for Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Domino;
- wireless calendar synchronization;
- remote address lookup of corporate email directory;
- convenient email-attachment viewing;
- Triple DES encryption; and
- IT policy enforcement and commands

The companies said BlackBerry Connect will be available only on Palm's Treo 650 in early 2006.

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